Thank you to our 2025 Clean Air Calendar sponsors!
Platinum sponsors: Broward County's Building Code Division, Broward County Transit, Florida Power & Light, and Advanced Roofing
Gold sponsors: Broward County's Environmental Permitting Division, Humana, and Everglades Holiday Park
Silver sponsors: Broward County's Solid Waste & Recycling Services
Bronze sponsors: Broward County's Marine Resources Section, Broward County's Sustainability Section, Broward County's Water Conservation Section, Broward County's GIS Section, and Youth Environmental Alliance
In-kind sponsors: Broward BCycle, Flamingo Gardens, Publix, Miami EcoAdventures, Sawgrass Recreation Park, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Butterfly World, Zoo Miami, and Florida Panthers
The 2026 Clean Air Calendar Poster Contest is now open!
2026 Contest Theme: Level Up Against Climate Change
Would you like to create a video game scene with your climate change ideas for the chance to win prizes?
It’s a video game designer’s job to create exciting landscapes where characters interact with their environment, overcome challenges, and save the day. Drawing inspiration from video games, we are asking students to imagine a world where the objective is to combat climate change by reducing the specific climate change-related effects that we see in South Florida, such as flooding, extreme heat, air pollution, hurricanes, and more.
Examples of how we can adapt to these effects include:
• Planting mangroves along coastal areas to prevent erosion and reduce flooding
• Building energy-efficient structures with green roofs to reduce heat island effects
• Using green transportation to reduce air pollution
• Encouraging tree planting to keep our air clean
• Creating better infrastructure (such as roads, power supplies, or buildings) to lessen the impacts of storms.
This can be depicted through photography, hand-drawn artwork, or digital media. Please be mindful of any copyright infringement. For example, do not mention names of video games in your artwork or in your paragraph).
The contest is free and open to all K-12 students residing in Broward County. Please read the rules and guidelines below to ensure your artwork qualifies. If so, see the checklist at the bottom of this page to ensure you fill out the parental release form and online submission form. In addition to hand-drawn artwork, digital art and photographs are also being accepted.
Contest Rules and Guidelines
- An online
submission form must be submitted.
- A signed Parental Release Form must be completed and sent with the artwork.
- Entries must be received by Broward County’s Air Program by close of business on Friday,
April 18, 2025.
- Poster size
- Hand Drawing: no larger than 12 inches x 18 inches and no smaller than 8 inches x 10 inches
- Digital Art: high resolution 300 dpi or higher and submitted as .png or .jpg. Pixel size between 3300 x 2400 and 5100 x 3300
- Subject to AI checkers to avoid copyright infringement
- Photographs: no larger than 12 inches x 18 inches and no smaller than 8 inches x 10 inches and submitted as .png or .jpg
- Poster orientation: LANDSCAPE for
all art types. If the submission is not in the landscape orientation, it will be disqualified.
- One paragraph that explains your artwork. Your artwork should show how to combat climate change by reducing the specific climate change-related effects that we see in South Florida. Your paragraph must be no longer than 75 words.
- Only original work will be considered (for example, no magazine cutouts or photos from the Internet).
- Please do not fold posters. Entries must be mailed flat and must not be folded, matted, or mounted.
Submission of Artwork
Hand-drawn artwork and Broward County Public School student:
| Hand-drawing and not a Broward County Public School student (homeschool, private school, etc.):
| Digital art and photography:
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Submit to your teacher for them to submit via School Board Pony to the address below:
ATTN: Rebecca Malones, STEM + CS, 4th Floor
KC Wright Building
600 SE 3rd Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
| Mail to:
Resilient Environment Department
ATTN: Air Outreach Team
115 South Andrews Avenue
Suite 329H
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
| Submit via submission form
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Judging Criteria
Effectiveness & Relevance to theme (75%): Does the artwork effectively illustrate the theme and have a written description relevant to the theme? Does the poster clearly express a message of environmental conservation?
Creativity & Neatness (25%): Does the student use creative forms of expression? Is the poster neat and easily understood? How much time and effort does the poster, digital art, or photograph exhibit?
Winners
Winning entries will be featured in the 2026 Clean Air Calendar. There will be a total of twelve (12) winners and one (1) Grand Prize Winner. The participating school of the Grand Prize Winner (cover image) will be awarded a plaque for display at the school and all winners will receive a prize. Posters submitted for the contest may be used for educational purposes and will become the property of Broward County.
Checklist
Complete an online submission form directly OR visit our Hub Site to submit the same form (scroll to the bottom of the Hub Site page).
- Paragraph explaining the contest theme (see above)
Signed Parental Release Form
Artwork MUST be in the landscape orientation. If not, it will be disqualified.
Poster must be flat and not folded (NO glue and NO glitter).
Poster must be
no larger than 12 inches by 18 inches (use a ruler to check the size).
- Only original artwork will be accepted
Please note: Digital art and photographs will be accepted and will be considered upon the discretion of Broward County.
